The lease on my summer car is at 0.003% (yes, really). So the numbers are fairly close to reality.
Also, there is a tax advantage to leasing. You pay tax on each month's payment; for a purchase you pay tax on the entire value of the car. So, if you turn in the car at the end of the lease, you've saved paying sales tax on $25K.
Yes, you *can* do that here in the USA. I've done precisely that with the last 5 phones I've bought.
I don't do car leases because at the end of the lease, I don't get to keep the car.
At the end of a car lease, you can keep the car - if you want to. You just purchase it for it's agreed upon value. It's pretty much a win/win situation. You have a much lower payment over the length of the lease; and then you can buy and keep the car if you like it, or return it if you don't.
In essence - say you are interested in a $50K car. For a purchase, you make payments on a $50K loan. For a lease, you make payments on a $25K loan, and at then end you either buy the car for $25K, or return it.
Didn't people ask the same thing when Apple, a computer company, started selling portable music players? And then again when they started selling phones?
We hear you have a station in space, with air pressure, but zero gravity. Do you have a few minutes to settle an argument?
Encryption is explicitly excluded in the regs.
Unless your name is Icom. Then it's okay.
Given the negative connotations of the word "hackers" - how about "dedicated engineers" instead?
This is how 'cablevision' used to work. They'd put up a big antenna that could pull down signals you couldn't
There is a huge difference: Cablevision put up *one* antenna and used that signal for thousands of users. Hence, public performance.
Aereo rents each individual user their own, private antenna. (Yes, if they have 10,000 subscribers, they have 10,000 antennas). Hence this is NOT a public performance; you are only watching what your own, private, rented equipment is receiving.
Linksys has working wireless drivers; the product ships with them. The only problem is the lawyers who won't open source those drivers.
It would take them a few seconds to just post the sources that the router ships with to their web site; there is no *technical* reason for the delay, they are just refusing to do so, even after promising that they would.
Quality bridge cameras ($300+ models) also have the ability to mimic a narrow depth of field.
If you have a real camera and lens, just shoot with the lens wide open and fast shutter speed; you'll have a narrow depth of field with no computer wizardry needed.
Why would I want to ruin large parts of a good image with this effect?
It's for camera phones: crappy, non-adjustable lens and cheap, noisy sensor. So it isn't a good image; deliberately blurring the picture can distract you from the fact that it is *not* a good image.
So, kid gathers evidence of bullying by other kids, gets charged?
When bullies grow up, they become policemen. The police protect their own.
Why satire? Given the current smartphone - is the prediction far off? Sure, the screen can do graphics *and* text, the keyboard is usually on-screen, and the removable storage is flash instead of floppy - but the basics are all there.
Plus, everyone is saying that the smartwatch is the 'future of wearable computing' - if true, the Byte prediction will be even closer to the truth.
They had me until "Silicon Valley".
They aren't building a computer - they are building a car first, an airplane second, with some computer bits inside it. So why choose some of the world's most expensive real estate? Why put your engineering far, far away from any place you could test the flying capabilities?
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
